Of all the dystopias I read as a teen I think Fahrenheit 451 is the flimsiest thematically but the prose more than makes up for it
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"Fire is bright, fire is clean" as visual metaphor for the insistent ravenous pace of modern mass media, the constant yammering Now of news
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On that level it's if anything much more relevant today than when written, even if the core metaphor of mass illiteracy is now outdated
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What I liked about it was that it's not illegal because it undermines the government. It's illegal because everyone's afraid of reality
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For all the drama of burning books, when I finally read it, Fahrenheit 451 didn't feel primarily political to me, it was more psychological
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